Subject: [bugreport] resolv.h test fails (was: Re: minires-devel-0.97-1: resolv.h fails)
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:06:02 +0200

Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> At 01:03 PM 10/18/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>>On Oct 18 03:28, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>>minires-devel-0.97-1:
>>>  #include <resolv.h> fails suddenly.
>>>
>>>Apparently /usr/include/resolv.h misses the definition for
>>>sockaddr_in, which is defined in <cygwin/in.h>
>>>
>>>Have no clue why it suddenly fails. Anyone else?
>>>These headers didn't change for years...
>>>
>>>Which file is supposed to include cygwin/in.h? I found nothing.
>>
>>netinet/in.h
> 
> 
> Its an upstream issue. According to the resolver man page, 
> netinet/in.h should be included before resolv.h.
> 
> For example
> <http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?resolver+3>
> SYNOPSIS
>      #include <sys/types.h>
>      #include <netinet/in.h>
>      #include <arpa/nameser.h>
>      #include <resolv.h>
> 

I think this is correct.  What is buggy is the autoconf test which is
just including resolv.h and not netinet/in.h to compile the test exe.

Gerrit
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